Holton H279 Farkas Nickel Silver Detachable Bell Double French Horn (Free Shipping Lower 48 States)

Holton H279 Farkas Nickel Silver Detachable Bell Double French Horn (Free Shipping Lower 48 States)Up For Your Consideration Is A Superb Holton Farkas H279 Nickel Silver Double French Horn. This horn has near perfect compression on all the valves. Each Valve reading has a compression reading of 0. 2 ! This horn plays like a dream and looks lovely. There are some surface scratches, and a couple of small dings. There was a dent on the throat of the horn that was removed evidenced by a very small scar. Please check out the pictures for further

The bell Flare is made of Nickel Bronze

all of the latches function properly

The horn is all original with the exception of the upgraded Lanstro Lead Pipe and the Miles O'Malley Flare

I do have brand new Custom Miles O'Malley Lead Pipes available for direct purchase

Up For Your Consideration Is A Nice Holton 179 Double French Horn being offered at a very fair price

Sansone established his own shop at 1658 Broadway in New York in 1925 advertising it as The Worlds Largest French Horn House

Some of the lead pipes have braces while others do not

Seldom do you see an Elkhart in this condition

There is a super small ding in the bell I tried to capture with the pictures

This was a very fun collection to process

It was originally a restoration project of Jim Atkinson

and responsive with great compression